By your own logic, she should be absolved of liability in a lawsuit as well. Otherwise other false allegations might be seen as opening them to lawsuits as well.

As stated, there should be a lesser sentence for coming forward on your own, but you shouldn't be absolved of a crime for doing so. The reason they grant immunity is in a quid pro quo for testimony to take out more important criminals.

This instance, in particular, involves someone fabricating a scenario out of thin air and, in effect, being granted amnesty for their crime by simply admitting they were full of shit despite having stolen 9 years of an innocent man's life.

But said lawsuits are far less focused on than decisions of the court, and are based far more on circumstances. In this situation, she would probably never be charged in a lawsuit because she was 11 when it happened. And given this specific incident, your stance is even more flimsy, since you support convicting someone who was barely into her teens at the time that the perjury occurred. If anything, a large part of the blame lays on the legal system, for delivering a charge without proper evidence.

A lesser sentence maintains the present problem, which is the fear of being charged overriding the guilt. The reason they grant immunity is that the courts recognize that at times it is better to ignore certain crimes in order to aid the greater good.

Now please, stop dodging the question, because I've asked it repeatedly: why do the other men who were falsely accused not matter to you, when compared to vengeance? You have spent this entire time only arguing one side of the story, and subjectively ignoring the other.

“A fool is not a person who does not know something. Rather, a fool is a person who is given information but who chooses to ignore what he is given based on how he wants things to be, rather than how things are."

if they are telling the truth, then it shouldn't do a damn thing, if they are lying then it should drop that 3% to something like .000001%

It can do some harm if you apply a punishment without care, but we can easily mitigate that. Make it very clear to victims that they will not get in trouble for filing a report, only if it is proven that they made a false report.

In most cases, false reports do not name a suspect and the victims recant within days. As long as society and the police do not jump to wild conclusions about all rape victims being liars so that victims fear retribution, we can BOTH increase reporting rates and punish false reports.

So I take it you couldn't find where I said she should get a free pass and chose to instead address posts from like 10 pages ago instead.

Look... I answer the damn posts as I find them... I JUST answered yours... in fact.. you've intentionally made reference after reference against punishing her... so in fucking fact, you ARE fucking giving her a fucking free pass.

Look... I answer the damn posts as I find them... I JUST answered yours... in fact.. you've intentionally made reference after reference against punishing her... so in fucking fact, you ARE fucking giving her a fucking free pass.

I do get the point of why not to punish her. If she gets punished literally no woman will come forward to admit they lied and innocent men could spend more time in jail. I think women that get caught lying about it should be punished, and quite severely, but if you come forward and get an innocent man released from prison I can understand why you dont get punished. I do believe whoever sentenced him should be either fired for extreme incompetence and then the state pay reperations for the prison time as well as getting his name of the list instantly without him having to piss around with a stupid system.

But said lawsuits are far less focused on than decisions of the court, and are based far more on circumstances. In this situation, she would probably never be charged in a lawsuit because she was 11 when it happened. And given this specific incident, your stance is even more flimsy, since you support convicting someone who was barely into her teens at the time that the perjury occurred. If anything, a large part of the blame lays on the legal system, for delivering a charge without proper evidence.

A lesser sentence maintains the present problem, which is the fear of being charged overriding the guilt. The reason they grant immunity is that the courts recognize that at times it is better to ignore certain crimes in order to aid the greater good.

Now please, stop dodging the question, because I've asked it repeatedly: why do the other men who were falsely accused not matter to you, when compared to vengeance? You have spent this entire time only arguing one side of the story, and subjectively ignoring the other.

Ok let's think about this. Someone is wrongly convicted of arson/assault/some other crime. 10 years down the line, the real criminal comes forward and the wrongly convicted is released.

Should we avoid punishment of the real criminal because they came forward?

Yes, current innocent prisoners are important to me. What's more important is making it abundantly clear that we don't tolerate perjury so it doesn't happen in the future.

I do get the point of why not to punish her. If she gets punished literally no woman

Because she WASNT A WOMAN.

If she had killed her father with a hand grenade at the age of 11 would you be blaming her, or would you want to know why the !#$# someone trusted an 11 year old with a hand grenade ?

If she had been her current age when she lied, I'd be all for punishing her, but the legal system that convicted her father knew full well how unreliable her testimony was at the time, but threw her father away anyways.

If she had killed her father with a hand grenade at the age of 11 would you be blaming her, or would you want to know why the !#$# someone trusted an 11 year old with a hand grenade ?

If she had been her current age when she lied, I'd be all for punishing her, but the legal system that convicted her father knew full well how unreliable her testimony was at the time, but threw her father away anyways.

Yeah, the bulk of the blame, I think, lies with the people that took her word for it.